Abstract
This paper presents a unit cell structure for liquid crystal (LC)-based reconfigurable reflective arrays, aimed at improving the imbalance in response time. Conventional LC-based reflectarray antenna unit cells, which have been widely used as high-gain beam-steerable antennas, have an imbalance in response time because of different alignment of LC molecules during the rise and decay times. By separating the metal layers in contact with the LC layer and applying four bias voltages, we generated both horizontal and vertical electric field. Accordingly, the decay time was improved by unifying the methods in which the LC molecules were aligned during the rise and decay times. Our measurements confirm that the decay time can be reduced to approximately 1/3 compared to the conventional structure, indicating the possibility of resolving the imbalance.
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